Unconditional Love

To love or not to love–Have you ever wondered what unconditional love means? Does it really exist? Or is it just one of those words which you read in romance novels or self help books. Perhaps it’s purely a myth. To be loved is one of the greatest gifts of life and to love is an even greater gift. It’s sweeter to have loved than not to have loved at all, but often when we have been emotionally hurt in past relationships we are hesitant to open our hearts again in fear of being hurt again.

Living in the present

There is a lot to be said of living in the present. Think about this well-known saying, “the past is history, the future is a mystery and the present is a gift, that’s why it’s called the Present.” It’s true isn’t it? If we relate our experiences to what happened to us in the past then our heart is not available to be open for new and exciting opportunities. If our consciousness is in the past or in the future wishing that we had something else or something different to what we have now then we may very well be missing out on the greatest gift of life, which could be right under our nose. You see it takes courage to live the life we have here and now.

Angelic essence

An angelic essence is unconditional love in its truest form, which overcomes the hardest of battles. Sometimes our hardest times are our greatest blessings, we can not always see this when we are in the midst of chaos but as time goes on and we look back we can be grateful for what has happened. This is what I call an angelic essence of unconditional love. It is something that is learnt over time and takes an open heart and wisdom to give and receive.

True unconditional love; is not seeing events, situations or people as good or bad. It’s our perception that colors our existence and how we feel about our life and the people who share our life. It’s good, it’s bad, we love them, and we hate them. What’s good for us may be bad for someone else? And what we perceived as being a sad time years ago may now be our greatest blessing. The challenge in life is to see the blessing straight-away and not wait years to see the beauty of our experiences, which make our life such a beautiful journey.

Gratitude

To see the blessings in life is to be grateful for everything small and large that happens to us. To have gratitude for the people, events and situations in our life will help to lift our spirits, stay positive and more in control of our lives. This helps us to achieve our dreams, hopes and wishes in life while being more positive and productive. To have an attitude of gratitude can be the best thing you can ever do for yourself.

Loneliness

Last night, I cried until my eyes got tired.

I felt empty and left alone.

I terribly missing my half,

and couldn't help myself but to cry...huhu :(


... Thanks to my dear cuz' Derlyn - who called
and eventually lifted my spirit up,
encouraged, comforted and felt me secured.
lab yah' cuz!!!

GOING BACK TO BASICS

"The difference between courtship and marriage is the difference between the picture in the seed catalog and what comes up..."


One of the books I read illustrates the recipe of marriage... It is much like making an oatmeal cookies. The success or failure depends entirely on what you put into it. Leave out an ingredient or use too little of it, and it's just not right. Here are some ingredients I learned in developing a recipe for marriage:

***MIXING BOWL OF FAITH

***FLOUR OF COMMITMENT - in baking, nothing is more basic than a flour, and in marriage-
nothing is more fundamental than commitment.

***OIL OF COMMUNICATION - effective communication is the mutual exchange of ideas, thoughts, attitudes, information and feelings. It is said to be the prerequisite to real love, and without it- love withers and dies.

***ADD THE INGREDIENT OF LOVE - in tennis, love means nothing but in marriage, it means everything.

***NEEDS THE BAKING POWDER OF FORGIVENESS

***ADD THE EGGS OF MEETING EACH OTHER'S NEEDS - in baking, eggs bind the ingredients together. In marriage, meeting each other's needs keeps temptation away, and adds joy to a relationship.

***A SPRINKLING OF HUMOR & MORE THAN A DASH OF UNDERSTANDING - this is so-called the seasoning in marriage. The kind that enables us to laugh at ourselves, our failures and our foibles...

January Birthday Celebrants

Some of my love ones are celebrating their birthdays on the month of January and it is amazingly to be in every week.

January 07 - my hubby's birthday : He celebrated his 30th birthday in saudi.

With him were his co engineers and the rest of
the Al Osais employees...

January 14 - my kuya filboy's :

He is my fave kuya..hehe...
He's now working somewhere in Luzon

January 21 - my niece Beverly's:

She's my eldest niece. Beauty and smart...hehe
A nursing student in Our Lady of Fatima University, Valenzuela City

January 25 - my niece Glaiza's:

They say, she's my little me... Isn't she?..Undeniably cute...hehe
The youngest in the family of Manoy Abet...

January 27 - my best cuz' Derlyn's: She is my beautiful best buddy cousin.

A one year older than me...
An educator...


To all you guys, wishing you all a Happy Birthday!!!
May your dreams be all come true.
May you have many happy returns of the day too.
Good health, peace of mind, more success
and more blessings to come.
Take care always and Enjoy!!!
I Love You all :)

I miss him...

He is in a far place from Philippines
and I really can't help myself but to miss him,
the most wonderful man in the world,
who has been in my side for almost 7 years
and of course, still counting...

my best friend,

my confidante,

my encourager,

my prayer partner,

my beloved husband

Life should be like a Coffee Bean

Are you embattled right now? Having some crossroads? Life has lots of problems, yeah. But how we deal with them makes the difference. Does worrying makes our problem a little less? Of course not! Rather, we are putting more lines into our face - wrinkles! So how should we deal with our problems?

I just found the answer - be a COFFEE! Yes, you read it right, BE A COFFEE, not drink a coffee! How? Here’s how..

Put 3 pots of water over the fire. In the 1st pot, put some carrots. In the 2nd pot, put some eggs. In the 3rd pot, put some coffee beans that have been grounded into coffee powder. Boil all 3 pots for 15 minutes. Take out what you put in. The carrots went in hard. They are now soft. The eggs went in soft inside. Now they are hard inside. The coffee powder has disappeared. But the water has the color and the wonderful smell of coffee.

Now think about life. Life is not always easy. Life is not always comfortable. Sometimes life is very hard. Things don’t happen like we wish. People don’t treat us like we hope. We work very hard but get few results. What happen when we face difficulties?

Now think about the pots. The boiling water is like the problems of life. We can be like the carrots. We go in tough and strong. We come out soft and weak. We get very tired. We lose hope. We give up. There is no more fighting spirit. DON’T BE LIKE THE CARROTS!

We can be like the eggs. We start with a soft and a sensitive heart. We end up very hard and unfeeling inside. We hate others. We don’t like ourselves. We become hard-hearted. There is no warm feeling only bitterness. DON’T BE LIKE THE EGGS!

We can be like the coffee beans. The water does not change the coffee powder. The coffee powder changes the water. The water has become different because of the coffee powder. See it. Smell it. Drink it. The hotter the water, the better the taste. We can be like the coffee beans. We make something good from the difficulties we face. We learn new things. We have new knowledge, new skills, new abilities. We grow in experience. We make the world around us better. To succeed, we must try and try again. We must believe in what we are doing. We must not give up. We must be patient. We must keep pushing.

Problems and difficulties give us the chance to become stronger…, and better…, and tougher.

What are we like when things don’t go well…?? Are we like the carrot… or the egg… or the coffee bean…? BE LIKE THE COFFEE BEAN!!!